If all the pictures hadn’t given it away, The Wolverine will have a modern setting as confirmed by the director James Mangold.
I do like that he’s going to ‘be beholden’ to the X-Men films, that makes it stand on its own and has a bit of reboot value. Still cautiously optimistic about this film, but I could still be running off the high from X-Men: First Class.
This also puts the news that Jean Grey having a cameo in The Wolverine in a new context… Jean died in X3, not that this has stopped her before. So is this a flashback? Or is she still alive and basically confirming this is a reboot? Very interesting…
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